CalHeatScore is a public health tool to help Californians stay informed, ready, and safe when temperatures rise. The purpose of CalHeatScore is to reduce heat-related illness and save lives by translating meteorological, weather and health data into easy-to-understand heat risk alerts.
This webinar will focus on the newly released CalHeatScore tool. Learn about the history of CalHeatScore and how the tool can be used now. This series is a partnership effort between the Office of Enviornmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI), and the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC).
CalHeatScore is a web mapping tool that uses a heat-health ranking system to provide awareness to local and regional extreme heat events in California. CalHeatScore translates weather information into easy-to-understand heat scores, ranging from 0 to 4 to indicate increasing levels of human health risk from extreme heat impacts.
CalHeatScore is updated daily, incorporating temperature forecasts to indicate upcoming extreme heat events. Because California has differing climates across the state and even within counties, risk from extreme heat is calculated at each zip code.
For more information about the CalHeatScore, please visit: https://calheatscore.calepa.ca.gov/
